On the 24th of october in 1975, approximately 90% of Icelandic women struck for equality, not attending jobs or doing any domestic work. Iceland passed an equal pay law the following year, but the strike has been repeated on its anniversary several times since, such as in the years 2005, 2010, and 2016.
The strike was planned by "The Women's Congress", which had met on June 20th and 21st earlier that year. Among the reasons given for going on strike were pay inequality, lack of women in union leadership, and a general lack of recognition for the value and skill of domestic labor.
During the work stoppage, also known as "Women's Day Off", 25,000 people gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital city, for a rally. There, women listened to speakers, sang, and talked to each other about what could be done to achieve gender equality in Iceland.
Women from many different backgrounds spoke, including a housewife, two members of parliament, and a worker. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who "represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland", according to The Guardian.
In 1976, the Icelandic government passed an equal pay law, and the country elected its first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, five years later in 1980.
The 1975 Women's Strike also helped inspire the 2016 "Black Monday" anti-abortion ban protests in Poland, as well as the "International Women's Strike", single day work stoppages on March 8th, 2017 and 2018.
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Rant about some family stuff
Getting pissed off thinking of how another of my cousin's sons is getting put in another difficult situation because their relatively well off father doesn't give a shit about them because he subscribes to "rugged individualism".Here's the set up. He had one older son from another relationship/marriage before he married my cousin. He brought him to the US from another country at 15 and after letting him stay with them for a couple months and to get a part time job he kicks him out of the house because "he's a man now". At 15. In a country he had been in for less than a year. In a city that was expensive as fuck. At an age where he should have been worrying about finishing high school. Luckily there was someone at his job who was nice enough to let him room with them for a couple years until he was stable enough to move out. I'd hate to think what would have happened to him if not for that though.
My cousin's first son went off to a college that his dad had been pressuring him to go to. He didn't last a year there because my cousin was on disability and had divorced his father. For whatever reason they decided to put him as a provider (he might have been paying some child support), but that meant that he wouldn't receive any financial aid. So everything was out of pocket and his father didn't ever send him any money because he was 18 and a man now. He had a job in the college, but wasn't earning enough and at one point he was going entire days eating just a couple of granola bars. After he left the college he ended up joining the Marines, which prompted his father to complain that he never wanted him to join. But maybe it would have helped if he actually lifted a finger to at least make things easier for him.
Now the same thing is happening with my cousin's younger son. I'm offering whatever help I can provide, but I'm not really sure how much I can help. The only good thing is that he's going to a public college, granted he still had to sign up for a loan to pay it off.
The kicker is that the father was put through college by his mom who owned a small convenience store. I fucking hate people like this.